AA MEDIA is an experimental testing ground for exploring and interrogating the tools of the discipline – tools with which we speculate, manipulate and play; compute, control and test; communicate, seduce, and provoke.

Acting as both training camp and laboratory, it is a diverse, multidisciplinary program where unexpected collisions and obsessive attention to detail expose a rich seam of creative potential. Media Studies presents an opportunity to develop individual practice, where students hone their dexterity with established and progressive media, actively testing modes of production through focused acts of doing and making.

Architectural tectonics rely no longer on matter, rather on imagination and narrative as a structure. The “world building” does not happen only in films and games, but around us, in our pockets, accessible through the successful marriage of an LED screen and the camera on the opposite side of our AR enabled devices.

The 2017 Motion Studio’s agenda focuses on creating digital myths to diversify contemporary beliefs. An abundance of mythical narratives that bypass the purpose of myth to bind history, remaining just a diversion from reality.

Creators of digital habitats, we will be using: mobile devices, real-time 3d engines, volumetric filming, motion tracking, geo location and computer vision, to set on a journey of building augmented myths.

The Motion Studio is the Architectural Association’s time-based media and digital storytelling garage.
Press any key to continue.